Car-door guide.



No. 807,319. PATENTBD DEG. 12,v 1905.

E. T. ROBINSN.

CAR DOOR. GUIDE.

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/J 'I A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD T. ROBINSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO ST. LOUIS OAR COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION.

CAR-DOOR GUIDE.

Speccatoii of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. l2, 1905.

Application filed May 3, 1905. Serial No. 258,718.

To all whom, t Wawy concern: y

Be it known that I, EDWARD T. ROBINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Door Guides, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a guide member for the end doors of street or other railway cars, and, briefly stated, comprises a metallic plate having a series of ribs cut out transversely of said plate, thus forming a way for a laterallymovable door, said ribs being arranged in line with the ribs of a convoluted-mat car-floor, in order that the grooves between the ribs of the floor-mat and the grooves between the ribs of the guide member may be continuous to permit ease of sweeping of dirt from the floor-mat through the door-guide member. The guide-plate is also provided with a series of door-guiding studs located in the way intervening between and spaced apart from facing ends of the guide-ribs. It also includes a stop-rib located intermediate of the series of guide-studs extending the entire width of the plate at its center and against which the doors are adapted to strike when moved into closed position.

Figure I is a perspective View of `part of one end of a car with my guide in position upon the car-door sill. Fig. II is an enlarged vertical cross-section taken on line II II, Fig. I. Fig. III is a longitudinal section taken on line III III, Fig. IV. Fig. IV is a horizontal section taken on line IV IV, Fig. III.

A designates the door-sill of a rail way-car, B portions of the end walls of the car surmounting the door-sill, and C sliding doors that are mounted to move within said end wall.

D is a convoluted or ribbed floor-mat common to railway-cars and which is generally of wood.

l designates a metallic doorguide plate, preferably of iron, which is seated upon and extends longitudinally of the door-sill A. This plate has upon its upper side four series of ribs 2 integral therewith and that extend.

transversely of the plate, the said ribs being arranged in alining pairs transversely of the plate and having their facing ends spaced apart to provide a runway between said ends. All of the ribs 2 are arranged in alinement with the ribs of the iioor-mat D in order to provide continuous grooves running between the ribs of the Hoor-mat and the ribs of the door-guide plate. At the upper side of the door-guide plate and located between the facing ends of the pairs of ribs 2 are door-guiding studs 3, these studs being positionedpin alinement with the ribs of the guide-plate and consequently in alinement with the ribs of the floor-mat. Upon the upper side of the doorguide plate and integral therewith is a stoprib LI, extending continuously across the plate at its center and separating the pairs of series of ribs 2 and the guiding-studs between them from each other.

The sliding doors C are preferably provided with corner bumper-plates O' of metal, which are adapted to move into engagement with the stop-rib 4 when the doors are moved into closed position instead of having wooden portions of the door strike against said stop-rib, thereby obviating wear upon the lower corners of the doors. The doors have in their lower edges grooves O2, that receive the guidingstuds 3, whereby said studs are caused to direct the travel of the doors.

When the sliding doors are moved into closed positions, their lower edges straddle the guiding-studs 3, and these studs serve to direct the doors in straight lines between the facing ends of the ribs 2 of the guides while the doors are moving toward the stop-rib 4. The same guiding effect is secured when the doors are moved into open positions.

It will be seen that by my construction of door-guide accumulations of dirt that fall into the grooves between the ioor-mat are readily swept therefrom and through the doorway across the doorguide. It will also be seen that I provide a continuous mat-surface of uniform level, including the floor-mat and the door-guide, thereby avoiding the presence of door-guiding lugs or studs projecting above the level of the door-guide proper and against which passengers are extremely liable to stumble in entering and leaving the car.

I claim as my invention- I. Ametallicdoor-guideconsistingofaplate having ribs extending transversely thereof at its upper side, and havinga guideway extending longitudinally of the plate substantially as set forth.

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IO of said ribs, substantially as set forth.

4. A metallic door-guide consisting of a plate having ribs at its upper side arranged in pairs and having their vfacing ends separated, guidestuds located between the facing ends of said ribs, and a stop-rib extending continuously across said plate atits longitudinal center and separating said pairs of ribs, substantially as set forth.

E. T. ROBINSGN.

In presence of- A. DIEKMANN, M. C. MURPHY. 

